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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "MR. LEON WITTER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <leonwitter4@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:08:49 +0200
Subject: IT IS POSSIBLE TO INVEST THIS $10M IN YOUR COUNTRY...

Dear friend,



Our names is Mr. Leon Witter & Mr. Joao Guedes we work with APEX
SERVICE a sister company to a multi-national finance company based
here in the London and I am an American citizen. I have a business
proposition of Ten million United State Dollars ($USD10, 000, 000 .00)
for you to handle with me from my financial desk.



We will need you to assist my colleague and I in executing this
business project and consequently invest this money in your line of
business country or Malaysia.


We need to know if you will be able to handle a business transaction
involving this amount of money after, which we will go into details to
explain the simple detail of realizing this objective without delays.
Should you be interested please reconfirm your names in full, private
phone/ fax and contact address and scan copy of your international
passport or driver license for identity.






Please send your urgent response immediately for me to commence on the
proceeding of our deal.


Kind Regards


MR. LEON WITTER & MR. JOAO GUEDES
PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS: mr.leon_witter@yahoo.com

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